Aurora, CO, USA
Bright white shape seen close to a park.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-18
- Where
- Aurora, CO, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- ~1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.729, -104.832 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-aurora-co-2016-64ecfe
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Aurora, CO reports filed in September 2016.
In context
- Aurora, CO shows up 105 times across the archive.
- 201 reports came from Colorado in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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